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...methods Are More Important Than Facts. The Educational Value Of A Problem Given To A Student Depends Mostly On How Often The Thought Processes That Are Invoked To Solve It Will Be Helpful In Later Situations. It Has Little To Do With How Useful The Answer To The Problem May Be. On The Other Hand, A Good Problem Must Also Motivate The Students; They Should Be Interested In Seeing The Answer. Since Students Differ So Greatly, I Cannot Expect Everyone To Like The Problems That Please Me.

I've Never Been A Good Estimator Of How Long Things Are Going To Take.

We Should Forget About Small Efficiencies, Say About 97% Of The Time: Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil. Yet We Should Not Pass Up Our Opportunities In That Critical 3%

People Think That Computer Science Is The Art Of Geniuses But The Actual Reality Is The Opposite, Just Many People Doing Things That Build On Each Other, Like A Wall Of Mini Stones.

I Can't Be As Confident About Computer Science As I Can About Biology. Biology Easily Has 500 Years Of Exciting Problems To Work On. It's At That Level.